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Good morning! Where will Gio Reyna end up? No American has ever generated more transfer rumors than the unsettled Borussia Dortmund playmaker. He has been linked to at least 11 different teams, which isn’t necessarily good news. As we recently detailed, January is not the best time for MLS teams seeking to move players. And […]

Good morning! It’s eight weeks until the full-strength USMNT plays its first game of the year against Jamaica in the Concacaf Nations League semifinals, the start of a huge year for the program. With an eye on the Nations League and this summer’s Copa America, we begin a positional look at how things stand. Soccer […]

Good morning! The LA84 Foundation’s digital library has published a sixth year of Soccer America magazines, the complete collection of 1998 issues. The first issue — the annual Coaches Convention issue — features SA Men’s College Player of the Year Ben Olsen on the cover and an all-time classic interview with his former and future […]

Good morning! Inter Miami’s preseason tour continues tonight when FC Dallas welcomes the Herons to the Cotton Bowl. It’s the second of seven games in five different countries Inter Miami has arranged to show off Lionel Messi before the 2024 MLS season begins on Feb. 21. The tour is unprecedented by MLS standards but nothing […]

Good morning! Mark your calendar. Feb. 4 is the date that FIFA will announce the 2026 World Cup schedule — all 104 games — in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It’s a Sunday, so there is no respite for soccer news these days. The Daily Mail reported that AT&T Stadium, the home of the […]

Good morning! A shout-out to longtime Soccer America contributor Dan Woog, who has published his final “Woog’s World” newspaper column. Since 1986, he has written a weekly column for the Westport News, 800 words about whatever was going on in the Connecticut town. Readers of the prolific Woog, whose first byline came in 1969, can […]

Good morning! American soccer has its share of celebrity owners, athletes who have made small investments in pro teams. MLB players who invested in USL teams include Tyler Ross (Oakland), Tommy Pham (Loudoun United), Brandon McCarthy (Phoenix) and Torii Hunter (Northern Colorado). The USL Championship now has its first former MLB star with a controlling […]

Good morning! While most of the attention is on Americans playing in Europe, Brandon Vazquez and Cade Cowell, sold this winter to Monterrey and Guadalajara, respectively, and Alex Zendejas at Apertura champion Club America give three of Liga MX’s biggest teams Americans playing key attacking roles. Soccer America Daily is edited by Paul Kennedy and […]

Good morning! We enjoyed seeing so many old friends and making new ones at the 2024 United Soccer Coaches Convention in Anaheim. It was the first convention in Anaheim – Covid forced the cancellation of an in-person show in 2021 – and the weather was perfect. The layout with rows of food trucks between the […]